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Volume 103 / Number 1 / January-March 1983 ISSN a03d0279

JOURNAL AMEIA OF THE ME

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SPECIAL ISSUE

STUDIES IN LITERATURE FROM THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST, BY MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY,

DEDICATED TO SAMUEL NOAH KRAMER. Edited by

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Articles

Tzvi ABUSCH, The Form and Meaning of a Babylonian Prayer to Marduk ................... 3

ADELE BERLIN, Ethnopoetry and the Enmerkar Epics .............. ..................... 17

J. A. BLACK, Babylonian Ballads: A New Genre ...................................... 25 J. A. BRINKMAN, Through a Glass Darkly: Esarhaddon's Retrospects on the Downfall of Babylon .... 35 MIGUEL CIVIL, Enlil and Ninlil: The Marriage of Sud .............. .. .................. 43

APPENDIX by W. G. LAMBERT, Further Notes on ENLIL AND NINLIL: THE MARRIAGE OF SUD ..... . . . . . . . 64 JERROLD S. COOPER and WOLFGANG HEIMPEL, The Sumerian Sargon Legend ...... .. ........... 67 1. M. DIAKONOFF, Some Reflections on Numerals in Sumerian: Towards a History of Mathematical

Speculation ............................................................. 83 BARRY L. EICHLER, Of Slings and Shields, Throw-Sticks and Javelins ....................... 95 ROBERT S. FALKOWITZ, Notes on "Lugalbanda and Enmerkar .. ............................ 103 MICHAEL FISHBANE, Form and Reformulation of the Biblical Priestly Blessing ...... .. .......... 115

BENJAMIN R. FOSTER, Self-Reference of an Akkadian Poet ............................... 123

TIKVA FRYMER-KENSKY, The Tribulations of Marduk: The So-Called "Marduk Ordeal Text" .. .. ...... 131

A. KIRK GRAYSON, Literary Letters from Deities and Diviners: More Fragments ...... .......... 143 MOSHE GREENBERG, Ezekiel 17: A Holistic Interpretation ............. .................... 149

HANS G. GUTERBOCK, A Hurro-Hittite Hymn to Ishtar ................................. 155

WILLIAM W. HALLO, Lugalbanda Excavated ......................................... 165

DELBERT R. HILLERS, The Effective Simile in Biblical Literature ........................... 181

HARRY A. HOFFNER, JR., A Prayer of Mursili II About His Stepmother ..................... 187

THORKILD JACOBSEN, Lad in the Desert ............................................ 193

JACOB KLEIN, The Capture of Agga by Gilgames (GA 81 and 99) ......... .. ............... 201

F. R. KRAUS, Eine neue Probe akkadischer Literatur: Brief eines Bittstellers an eine Gottheit ... ..... 205 W. G. LAMBERT, A Neo-Babylonian Tammuz Lament .............. .. ................... 211 ERLE LEICHTY, An Inscription of Assur-Etel-Ilani ...................................... 217

PETER MACHINIST, Rest and Violence in the Poem of Erra ............................... 221

JOHN R. MAIER, Charles Olson and the Poetic Uses of Mesopotamian Scholarship ..... ......... 227 APPENDIX by J. M. SASSON, Musical Settings for Cuneiform Literature: A Discography ..................... 233

PIOTR MICHALOWSKI, History as Charter: Some Observations on the Sumerian King List ... ....... 237

JACOB MILGROM, The Graduated Hattd't of Leviticus 5:1-13 .............................. 249

WILLIAM L. MORAN, Notes on the Hymn to Marduk in Ludlul BJl Njmeqi ...... .. ........... 255

CHARLES F. NIMs and RICHARD C. STEINER, A Paganized Version of Psalm 20:2-6 from the Aramaic Text in D em otic Script ..................................................... 261

MARTHA T. ROTH, The Slave and the Scoundrel: CBS 10467, A Sumerian Morality Tale? ... ...... 275 JACK M. SASSON, Mari Dreams ....................... ........................... 283

STANISLAV SEGERT, Parallelism in Ugaritic Poetry ............... ...................... 295

AARON SHAFFER, Gilgamesh, The Cedar Forest and Mesopotamian History ...... .. ............ 307

AKE W. SJOBERG, The First Pushkin Museum Elegy and New Texts ........................ 315 MATITIAHU TSEVAT, Two Old Testament Stories and Their Hittite Analogues .................. 321

JOAN GOODNICK WESTENHOLZ, Heroes of Akkad ............... ....................... 327

SAMUEL NOAH KRAMER, In Search of Sumer: A Personal Account of the Early Years .... ........ 337 BIBLIOGRAPHY of the Writings of Samuel Noah Kramer: An Updating .------------- 352

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